Why Spend on Digital and CTV Advertising?

Reilly Shelton • October 18, 2024

This Month's Topic from the Turn It Blue Ads Newsletter

In today's fast-paced and ever-changing world, digital advertising has become a necessity for the success of most political campaigns. This shift underscores the importance of using the online world to effectively reach and engage with your voters, wherever they are online. Without digital advertising, it is nearly impossible to remain competitive and visible in the modern political landscape.


Here are some of the benefits of reaching your intended audience through digital advertising.


Why Digital Advertising?

Digital ads take advantage of robust targeting, including geography, demographics, and political attributes, allowing you to reach your target effectively and for a price you can afford. It's cost-effective, often cheaper per impression than TV, radio, or print, and offers a better ROI. Additionally, it provides flexibility and immediacy, allowing quick campaign launches and real-time adjustments for maximum effectiveness.


Why Programmatic Display and Video?

Programmatic display and video ads offer automated, data-driven ad placements, ensuring your ads are seen by the right audience, at the right time. Automated buying reduces the time and effort needed to manage your ad campaigns and ads use data to target specific audience segments, increasing the relevance and impact of your ads. You can easily scale your campaigns to reach a larger audience without sacrificing targeting precision.


Why CTV?

Connected TV (CTV) advertising combines the broad reach of traditional TV with the advanced targeting capabilities of digital advertising. A key benefit of advertising on CTV is the ability to target audiences based on 1-1 list matches, demographics, behavior, geography, and more. Because these are logged-in environments, we know with certainty that we are reaching your target household audience, wherever they are watching.


1. Guaranteed Non-Skippable Views

Potentially CTV's biggest benefit is the guaranteed view. All CTV ads are non-skippable and carry the industry's highest video completion rates, with 97+% of viewers watching your entire ad. Because CTV viewers are committed to whatever they are watching, they are far more likely to engage with your full ad, hammering home your message more quickly than any other medium.


2. Cost of CTV vs Traditional TV

Although Connected TV is slightly more expensive than standard pre-roll video ads, it is a fraction of the cost of traditional cable or broadcast television ad buys. With the benefits of addressable household targeting and guaranteed views, it may actually be the best bang for your buck across any advertising media currently available. Our FREE Budget Estimator Tool is a great place to start planning your campaign.


3. Buying CTV Ads is a Breeze

Turn It Blue Ads is proudly one of the first self-serve political ads platforms with integrated CTV buying. Our award-winning Digital & CTV Ads Platform makes it easy to launch your campaign. 


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Set your targeting, upload your creative, and monitor your campaign's performance using our analytics dashboard. If you need help creating a quality CTV video ad, check out our affordable video production packages and let our 30x award-winning team go to work making the optimal video for your CTV campaign.




Turn It Blue Digital Blog

By Reilly Shelton October 18, 2024
Launching an effective ad campaign can seem daunting, but with some tips and the right plan, you can achieve great results. We’ll give you important tips and best practices to ensure your campaigns not only reach but resonate with your audience. Planning Your Digital Ad Budget Don't draw your digital budget from leftover money! For digital advertising to be effective, you want to aim for 6-12 impressions per voter per week. You’ll need enough funds to reach every voter the desired number of times throughout your campaign. Tip: Our 💥 Budget Estimator Tool 💥 (view on desktop) can help you plan your budget based on audience size and campaign length. Build Your Audience Strategically When you think about building your audience, consider: Voter geography. Narrow your audience to only those who can cast ballots in your election. Voting history. Are members of your audience registered voters? Do they have a history of voting behavior? Our ads platform also has this information built for easy targeting. Voter preferences . Are you targeting strong progressives to increase turnout? Or persuading voters likely to agree with you? Use voting history or third-party data to predict voters’ behavior. Tip : Plug in your target demographics with our Custom Audience builder , and you'll be serving ads to the right people in no time! Turn It Blue Ads also makes it easy for you with our expert-curated One-Click Audiences . Are you focused on getting out the vote? Use our General Election Turnout Universe to get in front of your voters! Key takeaway : Don't get too granular. Cast a wide net and reach voters in your area who have voting behaviors consistent with your strategy to reach your win number. Don't Be Afraid to Run Multiple Campaigns You may need to achieve a few different goals with your digital approach—that isn't uncommon. You might consider running ads asking your base voters to volunteer while reminding infrequent progressive voters to head to the polls. Alternatively, you could run ads to increase name ID, followed by ads highlighting your key values. The great news is that you can execute all these strategies simultaneously! Here are three ways you can break up your campaign plan to achieve multiple goals: Target based on voting history behavior. Your message should be different when talking to people who consistently vote than when you talk to people who are irregular voters. Divide based on target issue preferences. If you need to persuade voters to reach your win number, split your audience into two or three main groups based on likely issue propensities. This way, you can send a message that matters to them. Divide based on timeline. Your goal may be to do all of these things at once—and that's okay! Try breaking your ads down based on the election timeline. By embracing these strategies, you can harness the full potential of digital advertising and drive meaningful engagement to achieve your campaign goals. Turn It Blue Digital is here to support you throughout your journey, providing expert guidance and tools to ensure your campaign's success every step of the way.
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